With some 50,000 displaced in Mauritania as a result of the protracted conflict in northern Mali, UNHCR is coordinating the humanitarian response to ensure refugees have access to protection and basic...

US special forces 'fought Niger ambush alone after local troops fled'

THEGUARDIAN, 04 Nov 2017

The US special forces detachment ambushed in the Niger last month fought alone for hours after the local Nigerien forces they were accompanying fled in the first minutes of the engagement, retired and serving special forces officers with knowledge of events have said.
The trapped soldiers also ma...
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A month on, U.S., Niger still disagree on what happened on fatal mission

REUTERS, 03 Nov 2017

NIAMEY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A month after an Islamist ambush in Niger killed eight U.S. and Nigerien troops, the two sides’ officials still cannot agree on the sequence of events leading to the incident or even, possibly more importantly, on the nature of the mission itself.
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First deployed as Information Management surge capacity for the Shelter Cluster in Mali in November 2012, REACH has since provided assessment support, basic service mapping, flood and vulnerability analysis to support the IDP response.